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An Analysis of AnCient Mythology Jacob Bryant &
Robert D. Morritt “An Analysis of Ancient (sic)
Mythology” describes the work of Jacob Bryant (1715 – 1804) an eminent
scholar and mythographer. This work is regarded as one of the most in-depth
Classical works on mythology of Ancient Greece and contemporary regions, in the
ancient world.
His work he called ‘the new system’ attempted to link the mythologies
of the world to the stories recorded in Genesis. Bryant argued that the
descendents of Ham had been the most energetic, but also the most rebellious peoples
of the world and had given rise to the great ancient and classical
civilisations. He called these people "Amonians", because he
believed that the Egyptian god Amon was a deified form of Ham. He argued that
Ham had been identified with the sun, and that much of pagan European
religion derived from Amonian sun worship.
Of this work he stated, “Through
the whole process of my inquiries, it has been my endeavor, from some plain
and determinate principles, to open the way to many interesting truths. And
as I have shown the certainty of an universal Deluge from the evidences of
most nations, to which we can gain access, I come now to give an history of
the persons who survived that event; and of the families, which were
immediately descended from them. His in-depth research gave us much
obscure information of the ancient peoples which he relates in the classical
manner, These observations give us an incredible look at early deities, the
Gods and early histories of archaic societies such as, Chaldea, Egypt;
Hellas, and Ionia and of other dynasties also their relationships, with an
in-depth treatise an the mythology of
the ancient world. |
